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Vol. 5.
Issue 2 ------------- Quarterly Newsletter -------------------- April-June 99
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Lee Ann Berglund-Fosdick |
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I ndia offers an exotic whirlwind of contrast that continually assaults you throughout your senses, intellect, body, morals and soul. There is beauty everywhere in India. Beauty is present in the lush greens of the jungle with iridescent parrots flying overhead. It is in the colors, fragrances, tastes and sounds that entice from the markets. It is found in the bright smiles of its children. It is in the colors of the women, the flowers and the butterflies. And beauty is in the beat, the pulse of the land, its |
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The directors with some graduating students
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people, its customs, its languages. The beauty of this land satisfies you down to your very soul. Yet India is also a suffocating pool of poverty, waste, ugliness, and ignorance. There are stenches, crowds, jutting bones, the oppression of castes, scraggly hair, blaring horns, the brown dead heat of summer, broken bodies, diseases, litter, and beggars carrying heart wrenching bundles of precious babies. |
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Audience at graduation ceremony
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